Doctoral Studies Update
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IN THIS ISSUE:
FALL/DECEMBER 2015
Words from Our Director by Dr. Graham Stead
A special welcome to the 14 students
of Cohort XXIX! It is my hope that
through your experiences in the program, you will benefit academically,
professionally, and socially and that
the doctoral program opens new ways
for you to think and to conduct
research. I also hope that all doctoral
students have a restful break during
the holidays.
ERE 2016 and the GLRC
The Educational Research Exchange
Conference is for students and helps
you to experience the conference
environment and enable you to be
well-prepared to present at national
and international conferences. I
encourage you to submit proposals to
the ERE conference of 2016. It will
be held at Kent State University on
April 29 (Friday), 2016. CSU Faculty
members on the ERE committee are
Dr. Stead, Dr. Bagaka’s, and Dr. Koc.
The call for submissions will be
available soon and the due date will
be in early February 2016 (TBA).
Other universities that participate in
this conference are: The University of
Akron, and Youngstown State
University.
The twenty-ninth Annual Great
Lakes Regional Counseling Psychology Conference will be held at
Indiana University, Bloomington,
from April 8-9, 2016. Submission
deadline: January 31, 2016. Many of
our counseling psychology doctoral
students present at this conference.
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“Project Dissertation: Before, During
and After the Dissertation Experience,”
a symposium sponsored by Doctoral
Studies, was a success.
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Other Upcoming Conferences
Further information on conferences
can be found at conferencealerts.com
and allconferences.com. Upcoming
conferences
include
MWERA
(October 26-29, 2016, Evanston
Illinois), see mwera.org. Some of our
students
attended
the
APA
conference in Toronto, Canada in
August 2015. The APA convention
will be in Denver, Colorado from
August 4th – 7th, 2016 (see
apa.org/convention). The AERA
conference will be held in
Washington, DC from April 8-12,
2016 (see www.aera.net).
Should you wish to present a paper at
a conference you may apply for
funding by completing the required
application forms, obtained from Ms.
Grabowski. Funding is considered,
CSU researchers are now required to use
Cayuse IRB, an online IRB submission
system, which simplifies the review and
approval process.
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National Fellowship Awarded
Counseling Psychology Student.
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Happy Holidays!
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but is not guaranteed. Submit your
application to Ms. Rita Grabowski. at
least three weeks prior to the
conference. Applications submitted
after a conference is attended will not
be considered for funding. If there
are co-authors of a paper, co-authors
need to submit funding applications
simultaneously should they wish to
attend the conference.
SEM Workshop
Dr. Richard Haase from SUNY,
Albany presented a two-day
workshop on structural equation
modeling to doctoral students and
faculty from June 18-19 2015 using
STATA and AMOS. The workshop
was well attended and everyone
found the workshop stimulating and
practical.
Dr. Voight and Dr. Stead offered
short workshops on STATA to
faculty and students during Fall 2015.
Doc Lab Update
Doctoral Students’ Organization
The Doctoral Studies lab is now
equipped with SPSS, NVIVO,
STATA (a new addition to the lab),
STAT TRANSFER (data can be
converted from one statistics
program format to another’s
format; also new), HML, and one
copy each of MPLUS (for CFA,
SEM, Multilevel Modeling, etc;
new) and CMA (a meta-analysis
program).
The Urban Education Doctoral
Students’ Organization is planning
events for the upcoming year. The
Chair is Lindsey Bisgrove. On
November 17, they organized a
presentation
by
Dr.
John
Jeziorowski (Chair of the IRB) on
the role of the IRB and dissertation
research. It was well attended. If you
have some ideas on what events you
would like to organize, contact
Lindsey or Dr. Stead
Doctoral Studies Website
The Doctoral Studies website has
been greatly improved thanks to
the work of David Easler (Director
of Graduate Recruitment in the
College of Graduate Studies), Liza
Gilblom, (graduate assistant), and
Ms. Rita Grabowski. We will
continue to make web improvements into the spring. Additionally,
ways of advertising the doctoral
program are being enhanced.
SEM Workshop Participants and speaker Dr. Richard Haase (far left) from SUNY,
Albany.
Student Representatives
New student representatives on the
Doctoral Studies Committee have
been elected for 2016. (See related
story on page 6.) I wish to thank
Ashley Poklar, Anil Lalwani, and
Brittan Davis for their service which
ends this month.
Library Assistance
Should you require any assistance
with the library and accessing books,
periodicals, journals, etc., please
contact Ms. Diane Kolosionek,
Librarian, and Liaison to COEHS, at
the Michael Schwartz Library. You
can contact Ms. Kolosionek at:
d.kolosionek44@csuohio.edu.
Course Deferment
Please remember that should you
wish to postpone registering for a
course in the doctoral program, you
are to submit a petition requesting
course deferment to the Doctoral
Studies Committee. As this program
follows the cohort model, students
are expected to complete courses in
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sequence as stipulated in the
Doctoral Student Handbook.
You cannot “take a break from
coursework” for a semester or two
without seeking permission from
the Doctoral Studies Committee to
do so. In addition, if you have been
in the program for more than 6
years, you also need to submit a
petition requesting an extension to
the doctoral studies committee.
Petition forms are available in the
office and can also can be found at
the Graduate Studies website:
http://www.csuohio.edu/sites/cs
uohio.edu.graduatestudies/files/petitionform.pdf.
EDU 895 and EDU 899
Also, please note the regulations
concerning EDU 895 and 899
found in the Student Handbook.
You must complete an SRA form
(in the Student Handbook and in
doc studies) for either of these
courses during the first week of the
semester. Obtain your advisor’s
signature and provide a statement
of what you intend to achieve on
the SRA form and submit the form
to Ms. Rita Grabowski. At the end
of the semester your faculty
supervisor needs to sign the form
indicating the grade you obtained
and only then can your grade be
entered into CampusNet. When
your faculty supervisor documents
that you have made satisfactory
progress, you will receive a T grade.
These are changed to S grades after
you complete your successful
dissertation defense.
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Dissertation Symposium Offers Students Advice
“Project Dissertation: Before, During
and After the Dissertation Experience,” a symposium held during
Homecoming weekend sponsored by
Doctoral Studies, was a success. Two
recent alumna, Judith Henning, Ph.D.
and Glenda Toneff-Cotner, Ph.D.,
and a current doctoral student, Liza
Gilblom, M.A., M.Ed., shared their
experiences and offered suggestions,
advice and encouragement to help
students at any point in their program
to better understand the dissertation
process.
The symposium was opened by Dr.
Graham Stead who described the
dissertation process as requiring,
“effort and thought – you’ve got a
great deal of thinking to do.” Dr.
Joshua Bagaka’s and Dean Sajit
Zachariah, along with current Ph.D.
students in various stages of the
program, were also in attendance.
Judith Henning, Ph.D. (Cohort XIII)
entered the Urban Education Ph.D.
program in 1999 and completed her
oral defense in August 2015.
Henning described how writing her
dissertation fell “lower and lower on
[her] list of priorities” as she managed
personal and professional events,
which she described as “speedbumps
and not road blocks.” Henning urged
current doctoral students to “Know
when to ask for help and [to]
recognize when there is an
opportunity” to learn something new.
Dissertation symposium speakers.
L to R: Glenda Toneff-Cotner, Ph.D.; Liza Gilblom, MA, M.Ed.; and Judith
Henning, Ph.D.
“embrace the dissertation process rather than seeing it as a means to an
end.” She described her dissertation experience as both a professional and
personal journey. Toneff-Cotner described the ways in which she benefited
professionally from the dissertation process, including becoming a David L.
Clark Scholar through the American Education Research Association
(AERA). Additionally, Toneff-Cotner described the personal benefits
earned from the dissertation process. Toneff-Cotner suggested that doctoral
students should schedule times to write and embrace a schedule to complete
their dissertation, a method that worked for her.
Liza Gilblom (Cohort XXVIII), a second-year doctoral student, offered
first-year students several suggestions about working towards a dissertation
topic. Gilblom suggested that first-year students should use their projects
and papers for their core and specialization classes as opportunities to
explore dissertation topics. She described how each of her projects and
papers have explored different aspects of for-profit higher education and
how several of her papers have been successfully accepted at conferences.
Gilblom recommends writing about several aspects of a single topic so that
students become familiarized with the literature and the theoretical
frameworks associated with their topic. Finally, Gilblom stated that students
Glenda Toneff-Cotner, Ph.D. Cohort in the cohorts ahead of hers have said that the dissertation topic “shows
itself to you, rather than you finding it.”
XXII) advised doctoral students to
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Mandatory Use of Cayuse
Begins January 1, 2016
CSU researchers now have access to an online IRB submission
system that simplifies the IRB approval process. The new system
is called Cayuse IRB and it can be found here:
http://www.csuohio.edu/sprs/cayuse-irb.
Cayuse IRB is easy to use and should improve all aspects of the
submission and review process for researchers and IRB members.
To access Cayuse IRB, insert your 7-digit CSU ID number and
password.
Click here for a Researcher Introduction on Using Cayuse IRB at
CSU.
Spring and Summer Comp
Exams Dates and
Application Deadlines
The sit-down Counseling Psychology Specialization Exams
are scheduled for Friday, January 29, for Intervention and
Assessment and Saturday, January 30, for Career Development.
The Intervention Exam is from 9 AM until 12:30 PM. The
Assessment Exam is from 1:30 until 5 PM. There is a 45 minute
break between exams. The Career Development exam is
scheduled from 9 AM until 12:30 PM. The Application Deadline
is Friday, January 22, 2016, which is the end of the first week of
spring semester. If necessary, make-up exams will be scheduled
during June, dates to be arranged.
The Application Deadline for the other specializations’ takehome exams, as well as for the Core and Research comprehensive
exams is Friday, January 29, 2016. The Core Comp Exam is
scheduled for Friday, February 5, from 9 AM to 1 PM. The
Research Comp Exam is scheduled for 9 AM to 1 PM on
Saturday, February 6.
The Core Comp Exam will also be offered on Friday, August
12; the Research Comp Exam is scheduled for Saturday,
August 13. The Application Deadline is Friday, July, 29, 2016.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
for 2016-2017 Internal
Funding Programs
Doctoral students are urged to access
the Office of Research’s website to
apply for the Dissertation Research
Award (DRA). These are competitive
awards available to doctoral students to
pursue dissertation research. Proposals
must focus on dissertation research
that requires funding in excess of what
can be supported through normal
academic program operating budgets.
Using the five-page proposal application that is posted on the Office
of Research website under Internal
Funding Programs, a doctoral student
seeking funding under this program
must submit a proposal to his or her
doctoral program director on or before
March 11, 2016.
For
more
information,
go
to:
http://www.csuohio.edu/research/diss
ertation-research-award
In Case of Grade Disputes
When disputing a course grade, the
burden is on the student to demonstrate that an error has occurred or that
a non-uniform standard was applied in
the assignment of the course grade. If
a student feels that an instructor’s
assignment of a course grade is
improper, the student should discuss
the matter with the instructor within
forty-five
days
following
the
completion of the semester in which
the course was taken. Here is the link:
http://catalog.csuohio.edu/content.p
hp?catoid=1&navoid=586#Grade_Di
spute_Procedure
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National Fellowship Awarded to Counseling
Psychology Student
Cleveland State University doctoral student, Basak Khamush-Kacar, received the prestigious Donald E. Super
Fellowship Award from the American Psychological Association Division 17: Society of Counseling Psychology.
Fellowship awards recognize and support outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based
degrees. Khamush-Kacar is a student of Cleveland State’s American Psychological Association (APA) accredited
counseling psychology doctoral program in the College of Education and Human Services. She completed a
Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Arts degree in Psychological Counseling and Guidance in Marmara
University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Accepting the award for her dissertation study on Identity and Career Experiences of Muslim Immigrant Women,
Khamush-Kacar commented, “The award is certainly very important for me in becoming aware of the significance
of this study and it definitely added to my enthusiasm to continue my
endeavors. It came at a time in when I was planning to focus more
on my work and, because it is a national award, it will be very
important in my future career that my work has been recognized in
this way.”
Selected from a highly competitive group of nominees, KhamushKacar was chosen based on the quality of her dissertation proposal
and its potential for advancing knowledge in the area of career
development. Counseling Psychology Professor and dissertation
chair, Dr. Donna Schultheiss, commented, “Ms. Kacar-Khamush's
contributions to work and family research enriches our understanding
of how immigrants from not only similar - but also diverse cultural
contexts - manage the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of work
and family life. This is a significant contribution given that existing
theory and research on work and family integration have afforded
minimal consideration of individual differences, cultural norms and
values.”
Doc student Basak Khamush-Kacar accepting
the award for her dissertation study on Identity
and Career Experiences of Muslim Immigrant
Women.
The Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 17 of the American
Psychological Association announced the fellowship award, along
with a cash award, at the 2015 APA Convention held on August 6-9
in Toronto, Ontario. The APA Annual Convention features more
than 1,000 sessions covering the entire field of psychology.
New Student Reps for Doc Studies Committee
Congratulations to the Student Representatives for the Doctoral Studies Committee for 2016!
Toni Paoletta and Kyle Znamenak have been elected as Student Representatives to the Doctoral Studies
Committee for the 2016 calendar year. Ms. Paoletta and Mr. Znamenek are both first year doctoral students in
the Adult, Continuing, and Higher Education specialization, and both are currently employed full-time at CSU.
Doctoral students are encouraged to contact their representatives for updates on committee meetings, and to
bring their concerns to the committee via their representatives.
Look for informational profiles about the 2016 Student Representatives in the Spring issue of Doctoral Studies
Update.
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Congratulations to Brittan Davis for serving as a Student Representative
on the Society for Vocational Psychology (SVP) Executive Board!
As vocational psychology is a primary research interest of mine, I am
especially honored to accept a Student Representative position on the Society
for Vocational Psychology (SVP) Executive Board within the Society of
Counseling Psychology (SCP; Division 17 of the American Psychological
Association). SVP serves to expand knowledge on work-related concerns
across the lifespan and functions to connect scholarship and practice to better
assist individuals within the 21st century economy. The Student
Representative position will afford me with the opportunity to further my
leadership and professional development and connect with professionals and
students within the specialty. I look forward to serving the section and
representing Cleveland State University’s Counseling Psychology Program at
the national level! For more information, refer to SVP’s website:
http://www.div17.org/vocpsych/.
Brittan Davis
What is an Academic Program Review?
by Rita M. Grabowski
The Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Planning oversees this process, including coordination of the
five-to-seven year review cycle in consultation with the Ohio Board of Regents.
For the first time since the Doctoral Program started in 1987, an Academic Program Review was initiated this
fall with the completion of the Doctoral Studies’ self-study, and will be continued into spring with an on-site
review by internal and external review teams.
The Doctoral Studies Program was responsible for writing a fifteen-page Self-Study Report, and included
appendices containing information deemed relevant to the Self-Study. There are fifteen appendices, and
evidence of the scholarship and success of our students is provided in the impressive listing of scholarly
publications by doctoral students on the next page.
We applaud and congratulate all student presentations. However, publications demonstrate a higher and deeper
level of scholarship and recognition. Dr. Stead and I challenge all current Doctoral Students to take their
outstanding papers and see them through to becoming publications.
We hope that you will enjoy reviewing the list that follows. Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year!
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